Modern Love Tokyo Season 1 Episode 1 Nursing My Son, and Some Grievances

Mari Takada (Asami Mizukawa) works for a non-profit organization dealing with environmental issues. At the same time, she is raising two children with her partner Aya Kono (Atsuko Maeda), who works as an architect. Mari is busy struggling to balance work and child-rearing. On top of that, she believes that breastfeeding is the only way she can love her son Tetsuya, and she never leaves her breast pump, even at work. This reflects her own mother, Mako (Meiko Kaji), whom she had longed for in her childhood. However, because Mako was busy with work, Mari was often left with her grandmother and raised on formula. Mari believes that this was the cause of the allergies she developed in childhood and the reason for her tenuous relationship with her mother. In order not to make the same mistake as her mother, she and Aya attend a breastfeeding support group frequently and receive advice on raising Tetsuya from Toko Yoda (Shinobu Terajima), the representative of the group. When her son Tetsuya